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Digital Music Downloads Too Expensive?
threeofnine writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has an article written by a copyright and technology lawyer asking if we are paying too much for digital downloads. From the article: 'Parallel imports are unavailable in the Australian digital market, however. Australian consumers cannot purchase downloads from iTunes or Wal-Mart in the US, which are often cheaper than downloads available here, without a US-issued credit card. And restrictive licensing conditions imposed by copyright owners also limit the sale of digital downloads across international borders. For both reasons Australian consumers miss out. And retailers cannot buy downloads from overseas and resell them here, even if it is worthwhile for them to do so. In a recent analysis, the prices of Australian-made CDs of artists such as Bon Jovi, REM and Robbie Williams were compared to those of legal parallel imports. It was found that the local product was as much as 300 per cent more expensive.'"
... AllOfMp3.com?
I find Allofmp3 to be quite reasonable! About 10 cents per song with no DRM. You can't beat that.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
To The United States Congress: We are the customers and former customers of the member labels of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). We love music and will gladly pay a fair price for it, but we are outraged by the RIAA's tactics in suing ordinary Americans for filesharing....
Let's slashdot the Senate and House Commerce!
Actually, in the US it is not illegal. Actually, there is a little known loophole in US law that allows you to import music from outside the US without any copyright violation.
17 USC 602(a)(2) says that "importation, for the private use of the importer and not for distribution, by any person with respect to no more than one copy or phonorecord of any one work at any one time" is NOT infringement.
Thus, if you "import" one song from say, allofmp3.com, or from some other foreign server, for personal use, and do not distribute it to anyone else, the RIAA could not legally come after you.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Hmmmm actually I havn't compiled any kernels or kernel modules in a while. Frankly, I gave up on it long ago... though perhaps you have some less well supported hardware or something?
Actually as I remember, madwifi did give me some major headaches when I realised that I needed it on my last laptop and the debian stuff just wasn't quite there.
Tho on the current laptop, I just installed ubuntu and have had no issues... and frankly... kernel updates are only so so important (usually). I mean sure every now and again a really important one comes out but as often as not, I find even the security ones are for situations that don't affect me.
Then when one does come out... eh I upgrade... from the standard package. Though, I also grew out of bragging about uptime a long time ago.
Course now it takes me so long to hit a record uptime that I just stopped looking on any of my systems that are always up. Maybe thats what really killed it. Once you hit the better part of a year once... you start forgetting to check.
(my best current uptime on a system I manage is 125 days though)
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Again this crap is being modded up! AllOfMP3.com don't pay the appropriate royalties to their artists. I very much doubt whether music downloaded from their site is appropriately licenced if you are buying it from outside Russia.
Like Stew77 said, emusic is the way to go if you don't want to support the big 'evil' labels. Give your money to independant labels, not dubious "too good to be true" Russian imports!
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